Thread: The new QWERTY device project
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2017-08-24 , 06:27
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#542
Originally Posted by SaiKo View Post
question: have you considered a touchscreen phone with optional magnetic keyboard? (like tohkbd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A834DyFiBUE)
you'd have a wider range of designs to choose from, just need to add pins and magnets on the back.
To be honest, a phone with a keyboard attached this way is rubbish, for multiple reasons:
  1. The Phone is massively unbalanced, because the battery is in the Display unit, so typing isn't really comfortable.
  2. The Phone is thicker
  3. The whole thing is quite instable (not software wise but hardware) and doesn't give you a lot of trust in not loosing the display unit.

I have tohkbd and I merely use it for that reasons.
 

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